James Patterson

News about James Patterson, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 10, 2014

Novelist James Patterson strikes deal with production company Collective Digital Studio for YouTube series based on his best-selling young adult series Maximum Ride. MORE

Feb. 20, 2014

Best-selling author James Patterson has started a program to give away $1 million of his personal fortune to dozens of bookstores, allowing them to invest in improvements, dole out bonuses to employees and expand literacy outreach programs. MORE

Nov. 10, 2013

Marjorie Ingall reviews books Treasure Hunters by James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein and Mark Shulman, illustrated by Juliana Neufeld and The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carlson, illustrated by Dave Phillips. MORE

Aug. 25, 2013

By the Book interview with author James Patterson, who speaks about writing and the books he likes. MORE

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November 10, 2013, Sunday

The author behind Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club and the Middle School series is disappointed in the movies adapted from his books. “My current paranoid theory is that I’m a victim of ‘caricature assassination.’ ”

August 21, 2011, Sunday

In a video interview, James Patterson, the mega-selling author of novels for adults and children, including the Maximum Ride series, and Rick Riordan, a former teacher and the author of the beloved Percy Jackson series, discussed how to get children...